Improved apparatus for setting bullets in cartridges



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W. C; PICKERSGILL. Apparatus for SttingBullts in Cartridges? Patented Dec; 14, 1869.

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Apparatus for Setting Bullets in Cartridges.

No. 97,806. Patented Dec. I4, 1869.

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Letters Patent No. 97,806, dated December 14, 1869.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SETTING BULLETS IN CARTRIlIDG-Efrl.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent-and making part of the same,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. PIOKERSGILL, of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Setting Bullets in Metallic Cartridges; and I do hereby after the latter has been charged with powder.

The drawings exhibit, at sheet 1, a perspective view of the apparatus for setting a'bullet which has been greased by a separate operation.

At sheet'2 a like machine is shown in section, with the addition of a means for greasing the bullet at the time of perfprming the operation of setting it.

A A.- are two levers, jointed at B, and are intended to be held and worked by one hand.

A spring, a, tends to keep them separated.

The short arm, O, of the lever 'A enters a slot in the head of the plunger D, which plunger works in a suitable guide or keeper, E, and its end face is made concave to suit the shape of the tip of the bullet.

The short arm' of the lever A is shown at G.

Itsend is turned upward to afford a back rest'for the head of the cartridge-shell, and suitable concavefaced stumps, b, are atfixed to such arm as lateral rests for the shell.

This portion of the apparatus, with the exception that it '& arranged as a portable hand-machine, is not different in principle from a lever-pre's's.

At sheet 2 it will be seen that the apparatus above described is improved by the addition of a means for lubricating the bullet just before its insertion into the end of the shell.

It is customary to make all ammunition of this character with grooves around the outside of the ball, which should be filled with :tallow or other proper lubricant.

It has heretofore been customary to grease the bullets by a separate operation...

As this and the other machine of the series above referred to are intended for use in the field, I have combined'with the apparatus for setting the bullet above described, a hollow cylinder, H, capable of holding a quantity of tallow or other preferred lubricant.

This cylinder is attached to the armG of the lever A, and it is so arranged that a hole through its transverse axis, large enough in diameter to receive the cylindrical portion of the bullet, shall be in line with the bore of the cartridge-shell, when the latter is in position.

A duct,.c, connects the grease-chamber with the cy indrical hole last mentioned,

A piston, 11, is fitted to the cylinder H which can be forced downward by-a screw, E, working in a collar attached to the removable screw-cap g. g

It is quite apparent that if a cartridge-shell, charged with powder, is placed upon the bed on the arm G,

with its head resting against the back rest, the bullet can be forced home by the action of one hand upon the levers A A, while a turn being given to the screw E by the other hand, the scores in the bullet will, at the same time, be filled with grease.

Although the apparatus shown is intended to be portable, and for greater convenience the press for setting the bullet is worked by the hand-levers A A, it is evident that a similar means for greasing the ball can, with great advantage, be attached to any other form or description of ball-setting machine.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An apparatus ,for setting a bullet in a metallic cartridge, which consists of a suitable lever or other power-press,'in combination with a mechanism'for greasing the, bullet, substantially as described.

WILLIAM G. PIOKERSGILL.

Witnesses:

ORVILLE PEOKHAM, J 3 A. SHl 'rmnoK. 

